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-able vs -eable is not about GB or US spelling
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The grammar rule is that the final silent "e" of the root verb is
dropped, except for root verbs ending in "ce" and "ge". The rule is
the same in British and American English, and so is actual usage
according to the Google Ngram Viewer:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=writable%2Cwriteable&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-GB-2019
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=writable%2Cwriteable&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019

We could of course drop this rule from our typo dictionaries, on the
basis that it is not widely followed in practice. However, we should
the drop all -eable entries, not just this single entry.
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DimitriPapadopoulos committed Jun 4, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -61167,6 +61167,7 @@ wresters->wrestlers
wrestlin->wrestling
wriet->write
wriets->writes
writeable->writable
writebufer->writebuffer
writechetque->writecheque
writed->wrote, written, write, writer,
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Expand Up @@ -453,4 +453,3 @@ visualised->visualized
visualiser->visualizer
visualises->visualizes
visualising->visualizing
writeable->writable

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